Fifty years ago this month, a certain Swedish sexpot by the name of Anita Ekberg splashed around in the Trevi Fountain in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, and one of the iconic female screen images of the 20th century was born.
Read Duncan Kennedy's retrospective on the film.
And of course, "The Sweet Life" has inspired numerous musical tributes over the years. Here is my selection (in the genre we call "tacky", of course). Enjoy...
The utterly camp-as-tits After Dark (from the 2004 Melodifestivalen in Sweden):
Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas's take on the Ryan Paris song:
Finnish entry for Eurovision 1989, Anneli Saaristo:
And finally, Sparks!
Dolce, indeed.
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